Is this appropriate? Is this even going to work? Is this another example of handing parental responsibilities to techonology?
The 9 O'Clock Hour Rundown
Doug was discussing Al Gore’s meaningless endorsement of Obama at the Channel 5 studio when somebody asked Doug for his address and pulled up a recent picture of his house online. It’s incredible how monitored we are, and it’s only getting worse. Is there a limit to the amount of surveillance we should tolerate?
Rhode Island School district is pushing the envelope with a pilot program to plant computer chips in children’s backpacks to keep tabs on them. Doug wondered if that would really help. How often do kids leave their backpacks in a room, or lose them? Would it make them safer, or just lull us into a false sense of security?
Doug’s not only concerned about that, but he wants to know where the surveillance stops. At what point does the monitoring and surveillance start to take too much freedom? The ACLU says that point has already been reached in Rhode Island.
Is it even right to monitor our kids that closely? Doug said he would have hated that as a kid, and a caller argued that part of growing up is becoming independent. How will that happen if the kids are being watched everywhere they go?
On the other hand, Doug said parents have always taken extreme measures to keep their kids safe. They aren’t adults and they don’t have all the freedoms adults do. One callers said she would like the chips in her kids to keep them from getting lost. Most of the time kids who are lost turn up, but what about the rare times when something horrible happens?
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